The Old New Thing

Eventually, we may find out where notes eight through twelve came from

May 22, 2014 May 22, 2014 05/22/14

Raymond Chen

CBC Radio's Tom Allen investigates the origin of the opening four notes of the classic Star Trek theme. He traces it to the opening of Mahler's First Symphony, then further back to Brahms's Second Symphony and Beethoven's Fourth Symphony. In college, one of my classmates (the same one that is now the conductor of an orchestra) identified ...